Ingredients:

• 1 kg – Smoked Pork
• 200 gms – Fermented soya bean (akhuni)
• 10 nos – Dried red chilli (you can use Naga chillies as well)
• 20 nos – Mejenga seeds (roasted and powdered)
• 10 gms – Ginger (pounded and chopped)
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash smoked pork with hot water and cut into big pieces.
2. In a pot mix the wash pork, fermented soya bean, chillies and salt in sufficient water and put it on the fire to cook.
3. After a few minutes, remove the whole red chilli and ground it.
4. When the meat is tender, add crushed ginger, chilli and mejenga seeds.
5. Boil it for few minutes more.
6. Serve with hot steamed rice.
7. Garnish with fried mejenga seed for added flavour.

Recipe courtesy of Chef Joel Basumatrai